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romantic comedy
On a cruise liner sailing to California, Pete Wells holds a party aboard. While drunk, Pete signs a letter written by his best friend, Alan Chandler, detailing his past adulterous affairs. After the party, Alan mails a letter to Pete's wife Grace, with instructions to be opened after Alan is married.
Comedy
After inheriting a newspaper from her father, the socialite Joan Langford clashes with the managing editor Hank Gilman. He is a hard-bitten newsman who resents her interference in the running of the paper. Disguising herself as an aspiring young journalist, she gets a job at the paper.
Comedy
Comedy
Pamela Dickson (Sally Ann Howes) is about to marry her fiancé Joe Trent (Nigel Buchanan), when her long-lost father (Guy Rolfe) arrives. Ostensibly a cad, he turns out to be just the opposite, so she immediately puts her own plans on hold to arrange a reconciliation between her father and mother (Nora Swinburne) before marrying her beloved Joe.
boxing film, Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Boxers managed by Bassler and trained by Roscoe live in an all-male Brooklyn boardinghouse, where the arrival of the landlady's niece Judy gets their attention. Judy gets to know Ken Burke, who quit medical school to try boxing, and Ole Jensen, the young janitor. Bassler is concerned that Ken's interest in Judy is distracting him, so he tries to find her a job as a singer.
Comedy drama
A 50-year-old married man goes with his wife and son to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris.
Comedy drama
Robert, a young employee in the Classified advertising of a newspaper, is a daydreamer who wants to quit his job and sail round the world in search of experience and adventure. However, obstacles keep falling in his path.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Secret Agent
Caught between a constricting budget and an inane American Intelligence Community, Canadian Secret Service agent Darryl Freehorn works as a liaison with the U.S. State Department to solve international conspiracies and busts American prescription drug smugglers. Freehorn is frequently met with skepticism by American officials when he introduces himself as an agent of the CSS, to which he always responds with "We have one, too." Costar Joanna Canton plays Naomi Lutz, a smitten assistant to Freehorn bucking for a job as a full-blown agent.
Comedy
Told that they are too young to join the Greenpoint Boy Scouts, the gang forms a troop of their own. Unfortunately, their camping and survival skills leave much to be desired. They pitch a tent over a well getting soaked; they burn the bacon, wieners, and fish they try to cook; get caught in a rainstorm, and get poison ivy.
Comedy
Joe Smart is a radio repairman who enters the political arena competing in an upcoming election against his own boss. Joe wins the election, but encounters various troubles in the process.
Comedy
The plot follows Patricia Lawson who is about to marry T. Ames Piermont III. On the day of their civil ceremony, poor saxophone player Bill Blair objects to the marriage and Patricia decides to run off with him, leaving T.
Comedy
The Gas House Kids of New York travel west to California after winning a basketball competition. The boys cash in their train tickets and decide to buy a used car instead, donating the money saved to charity. At a used-car lot, the shady dealer gives them a stolen car, too hot for New York, to drive cross-country to his contact in California.
romantic comedy
thumb|thumbtime=20|Lovin' the Ladies (1930) Peter Darby is an electrician sent on a call to the home of wealthy Jimmy Farnsworth. While there, Farnsworth is telling his friend, George Van Horne, that any two people can fall in love, under the right circumstances. When George expresses his skepticism, Jimmy bets him $5,000 that he can prove his contention.
Comedy, Dark Comedy
The film "explores the dynamic between two women who take a dive into a complex morning after a simple one-night-stand."
Comedy
Toby Morris enters hospital to remove a cyst from his hand. He wakes up to find not only has the cyst been removed but he has been given a vasectomy. Toby develops a phobia against hospitals and becomes a Casanova.
Comedy
Katrina Bartalotti is the daughter of Ronny, a Southern California adult film director, who desires his daughter to be wholesome and educated but she has other plans, desiring to lose her virginity by auctioning it online in order to spite her father by using the Live Virgin bodysuit innovated and promoted by Joey.
Comedy
Millionaire Harrison Allen is determined that his daughter Phyllis does not marry her fortune-hunting beau, Ramon del Ramos. Harrison and his secretary, George Burns, draw up a document in which Harrison temporarily signs over his fortune to his other daughter Gracie, who calls herself "Cookie," for a period of sixty days, in order to prove Ramon's avarice. While Harrison goes back to his hometown for a vacation, witless Gracie takes her father's farce to heart and proceeds to destroy his fortune and his home.
Comedy
Tom Leslie is having some trouble at his newspaper job, so his wife, a stamp collector, suggests he distract himself with a former hobby of his own, photography. Tom is afraid he is going to lose his job. Robert tries to fix a radio but gets electrocuted.
romantic comedy
Perry (Lee) and Stephanie's (Davis) junior year in college has just ended. Though the two have been dating since high school, they both feel that the spark in the relationship is gone, and that their constant bickering, breaking up, and making up has become more like a game. They both decide the best thing to do is to call off the relationship before their senior year, so they can test the waters with other people.
Comedy drama, musical film
The story follows aspiring actor Lem Anderson in Harlem, who desires to act in a dramatic piece. Unfortunately for Lem, he is the witness of a crime and the mobster responsible forces him to leave town, where he becomes an alcoholic. Eventually he is drawn back to Harlem to get the chance to play Othello but is still on the hit list of a group of mobsters
Comedy
Jim Hilton devotes too much time to his lodge membership and too little to his real-estate business. He lets daughter Ethel handle a potential purchase of the Draytons' riverfront property, whereupon she develops a romantic interest in the Draytons' son, Tom. Jim inadvertently commits money he doesn't have to his lodge's hosting a convention.
independent film
The plot follows a conservative young man's venture into a world of sexual hijinks.
Comedy drama, Western
Nelson saves himself and Wilson from hanging. They acquire jobs at Lindsay's ranch and then foil horse thieves.
Comedy